Crash: Director's Cut (2-Disc Special Edition) (Full Screen)

Awards

2006 Oscar Winner: Best Motion Picture; Best Film Editing; Best Original Screenplay (Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco)
2006 Oscar Nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Matt Dillon); Best Director (Paul Haggis); Best Original Song ("In the Deep")

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments

A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American television director and his wife. A Mexican lock-smith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple...

They all live in Los Angeles. And during the next 36 hours, they will all collide...

Review

"This is the rare American film really about something, and almost all the performances are riveting. It asks tough questions, and lets its audience struggle with the answers." Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

Review

"The stunning, must-see drama Crash is proof that words have not lost the ability to shock in our anesthetized society. (Grade: A)"
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

Review

"Haggis writes with such directness and such a good ear for everyday speech that the characters seem real and plausible after only a few words. His cast is uniformly strong; the actors sidestep cliches and make their characters particular." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Review

"Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted." David Denby, New Yorker

Review

"A frustrating movie: full of heart and devoid of life; crudely manipulative when it tries hardest to be subtle; and profoundly complacent in spite of its intention to unsettle and disturb." A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Review

"Haggis knows how to grab the viewer's attention, via intense confrontations as well as by planting dramatic seeds that bear fruit in, more often than not, grimly unexpected ways." Todd McCarthy, Variety

Review

"The characters and individual dramas remain interesting in a personal way, but the overall conception of Crash is hackneyed." San Francisco Chronicle

Review

"Cheadle serves as the movie's Greek chorus, sorting out the fender benders that serve as a metaphor for a city where, Haggis implies, racial profiling rivals moviemaking as a leading activity." Lou Lumenick, New York Post